Improvement in horse-powers



T. s.' JOHNSON.

Improvement in Horse-Powers. No. 132,011. y-gj. Patented om. a, 1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,011, dated October S, 1872.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAs S. JoHNsoN, of Winona, Carroll county,Statc of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse-Powers, of 'which the following is a specification Figure l representsa vertical central section of my improved horse-power, Fig. 2 is a horizont-al section ofthe same.

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This invention relates to a new manner of connecting the drivin g-wheel of a horsepower with the sweeps to which the animals are attached,and has for its object, by the new connection, to increase the convenience of construction and gain or economize power. The

. invention consists in the interposition of inclined braces between the wheel and sweeps, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

A in the drawing represents the drivingwheel of the horse-power, mounted upon a vertical shaft, B, and gearing into a pinion, b, on a shaft, O,'from which motion is imparted to the machinery to be actuated. The shafts B and O have their bearings in the frame-work D of the horse-power. Suitably secured to the shaft B is a socketed hub, H, into the sockets of which are secured, at their inner ends, the sweeps E E, to which the animals are hitched. The sweeps E E are connected, by means of inclined braces a a, with the under side of the wheel A, near the rim of the same, as shown. By this connection of braces the sweeps do not wholly rely, in the transmission of motion,

Witnesses:

W. G. EsKRIDGE, C. Y. MAnsHALL. 

